My husband and I are in the process of listing our house for sale and our realtor came over to give us pointers on how to stage it better. One of her suggestions was to hang an American flag off the front porch so the house was instantly recognizable. While I consider myself a patriotic person and don’t personally have an issue with displaying a flag, I did start to wonder how other people would judge or “brand” me. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Careers
10 Things Leaders Should Never Do
What causes executives and business leaders with great potential to self-destruct? Their own behavior.
If you ask 10 CEOs, board directors, and VCs about the most preventable causes of failure for executives and business leaders, you’ll probably get 10 different answers. Most will focus on lack of skills, capabilities, or experience. Continue reading
Great Leaders Don’t Predict the Future – They Invent It
written by Erika Andersen
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay, 1971
I spent the day yesterday with one of my favorite client groups. They’re the senior team of part of a major media company, and they are smart, funny, curious, talented and kind people. The quote above was on the introductory page of a deck they had put together outlining their vision of change for the coming year. Continue reading
How Smart People Collaborate for Success
Solo performers can shine, but working together can yield greater results. Here are seven tips for improving collaboration.
Most experts agree that collaboration in business consistently provides greater accomplishment. When it works, the combined brainpower of intelligent people can solve complex problems and achieve amazing results. Continue reading
3 Signs You’re Meant to Be a Leader
written by Les McKeown
Not everyone is cut out to be a leader. But if you have these three traits, you might be a natural born leader.
Reading leadership literature (including this column), you’d sometimes think that it was written in the stars that everyone has the potential to be an effective leader.
I don’t believe that to be true. In fact, I see way fewer truly effective leaders than I see people stuck in positions of leadership who are woefully incompetent at worst and seriously misguided about their own abilities at best. Continue reading